Zinovii Lysko (1895-1969) was a composer, musicologist, and folklorist. He taught at the Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute in Prague, the Kharkiv Conservatory, the Lysenko Higher Institute of Music, and the Lviv Conservatory. Lysko also was an editor-in-chief of the journal Ukraïnska muzyka , a member of the Union of Ukrainian Professional Musicians, and assistant director of the Music Commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. After the Second World War, Lysko lived in Germany where he organized a music school at the Mittenwald DP camp. In 1960 Lysko immigrated to the United States where he directed and taught at the Ukrainian Music Institute of America. Lysko composed orchestral, chamber, piano, and choral works, as well as arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs, and wrote reference works, textbooks, bio-historical studies, and articles on folk music. The papers contain biographical material, correspondence, music, writings, and photographs.
Scope: 1913-1981
Size: 3 linear ft., 3 boxes
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